2024 Murmansk Oblast gubernatorial election

2024 Murmansk Oblast gubernatorial election
← 2019 7–8 September 2024 2029 →
Turnout41.55%
  Andrey Chibis
CPRF
LDPR
Candidate Andrey Chibis Yury Vatalin Stanislav Gontar
Party United Russia CPRF LDPR
Popular vote 167,647 32,971 15,539
Percentage 73.99% 14.55% 6.86%
Governor before election

Andrey Chibis
United Russia

Governor-elect

Andrey Chibis
United Russia

The 2024 Murmansk Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 7–8 September 2024, on common election day. Incumbent Governor Andrey Chibis was re-elected to a second term in office.

Background

Second-term Governor of Murmansk Oblast Marina Kovtun announced her resignation in March 2019, citing personal reasons.[1] Initially Deputy Minister of Energy Aleksey Teksler was expected to be appointed acting Governor of Murmansk Oblast, however, two days prior to Kovtun's resignation Teksler was appointed acting Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast.[2] Then-Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities and Federal Chief Housing Inspector Andrey Chibis was appointed as Kovtun's replacement.[3]

Chibis ran for a full term nominated by United Russia and won the September 2019 election with 60.07% of the vote against five opponents, including Murmansk Oblast Duma members Maksim Belov (LDPR, 18.27%) and Mikhail Antropov (CPRF, 11.38%), former Apatity mayor.[4] Despite the overwhelming margin of victory (nearly 42 points), it was the third closest gubernatorial election that cycle.

On April 4, 2024 Governor Chibis was attacked and stabbed by a lone assailant after a town hall meeting in Apatity. Chibis survived the attack and was rushed to a hospital in Murmansk for treatment of his injuries,[5] while his deputy Nadezhda Aksenova served as acting Governor of Murmansk Oblast until Chibis's recovery.[6] Two weeks later, on April 18, 2024, Chibis returned to office and the same day held a call with President Vladimir Putin, where the governor expressed his intention to seek a second term and received Putin's endorsement.[7]

Candidates

In Murmansk Oblast candidates for Governor can be nominated by registered political parties or by self-nomination. Candidate for Governor of Murmansk Oblast should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 7% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities.[8] In addition, self-nominated candidates should collect 0.5% of signatures of Murmansk Oblast residents. Also gubernatorial candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.

Declared

Candidate name,
political party 		Occupation Status Ref.
Andrey Chibis
United Russia 		Andrey Chibis Incumbent Governor of Murmansk Oblast (2019–present) Registered [9][7]
[10]
Stanislav Gontar
Liberal Democratic Party 		Member of Murmansk Oblast Duma (2021–present) Registered [11][12]
Yury Klimchenko
Party of Pensioners 		Pensioner Registered [13]
Yury Vatalin
Communist Party 		Former Member of Murmansk Oblast Duma (2012–2016) Registered [14][15]
Karib Gadzhimagomedov
Independent 		Former construction businessman
2019 gubernatorial candidate 		Did not file [16]

Eliminated at convention

Declined

Candidates for Federation Council

Incumbent Senator Konstantin Dolgov (Independent) was not renominated.

Gubernatorial candidate,
political party 		Candidates for Federation Council Status
Andrey Chibis
United Russia 		* Yelena Dyagileva, Deputy Governor of Murmansk Oblast (2019–present)
* Andrey Kulba, Deputy Head of the Control Department of the Presidential Administration of Russia
* Olga Kuznetsova, Deputy Governor of Murmansk Oblast (2018–present) 		Registered
Stanislav Gontar
Liberal Democratic Party 		* Nelli Shayduko, aide to Murmansk Oblast Duma member
* Irina Sologub, aide to Murmansk Oblast Duma member
* Konstantin Zamyatin, IT businessman 		Registered
Yury Klimchenko
Party of Pensioners 		* Igor Naydyonov, former Member of Murmansk Oblast Duma (2011–2021)
* Irina Shevchuk, nonprofit specialist
* Anna Volotskova, nonprofit specialist 		Registered
Yury Vatalin
Communist Party 		* Mikhail Antropov, former Member of Murmansk Oblast Duma (1997–2004, 2011–2021), 2014 and 2019 gubernatorial candidate
* Aleksandr Klementyev, Member of Murmansk Oblast Duma (2021–present)
* Aleksandr Makarevich (SR–ZP), Member of Murmansk Oblast Duma (2007–present), 2014 gubernatorial candidate 		Registered

Finances

All sums are in rubles.

Financial Report Source Chibis Gontar Klimchenko Vatalin
First [18] 50,000,000 500,000 100,000 45,000
Final TBD 1,000,000 TBD TBD

Results

Summary of the 7–8 September 2024 Murmansk Oblast gubernatorial election results
Candidate Party Votes %
Andrey Chibis (incumbent) United Russia 167,647 73.99
Yury Vatalin Communist Party 32,971 14.55
Stanislav Gontar Liberal Democratic Party 15,539 6.86
Yury Klimchenko Party of Pensioners 6,245 2.76
Valid votes 222,402 98.17
Blank ballots 4,149 1.83
Total 226,551 100.00
Turnout 226,551 41.55
Registered voters 545,267 100.00
Source: [19]

Governor Chibis appointed Deputy Governor Yelena Dyagileva (Independent) to the Federation Council, replacing incumbent Senator Konstantin Dolgov (Independent).[20]

See also

References

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